“But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”
Revelation 2:4
In Revelation 1:11 the Apostle John received instructions from Christ to “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches..”
John begins to carry out this charge by writing a message from the Savior to the church at Ephesus.
Jesus gives His assessment of the Ephesian believers, words that were meant to encourage, convict and challenge not only those first century saints, but us today as well.
Though He found these Christians to be faithful, persevering in their faith and zealous for the true gospel, today’s verse told them what they lacked. Effort and commitment was not the problem...their lack of love for the Savior was. They had started well but had lost their way, lost track of the real issue.
He offers to restore them in verse 5, but they must “remember” and “repent”. What He requires from those of us who have drifted from our first love is not self condemnation, but action. Remember Him and His sacrifice, and repent from our callousness towards our Lord. “Return to Me, and I will return to you”
(Malachi 3:7 ) #love#jesuschrist#devotion#prayer#repentance#faith#truth#life#real#lord#christian#bible

Talking my wife to church today wish me luck. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Love is not the satisfaction of a chemical reaction but the sensation of neural networks quantum entangled electromagnetic radiation. All of humanity's ideas and thoughts are information that dissipate out of there neural network in the form of electromagnetic radiation to this one central location spoken about by every civilization and religious organization. There's a book of light hidden in the sun's light. Carried by a body of light that is real light. The book of leaves for anyone who believes. Use a rainbow in a cloud to remove the shroud. Use God's seven seals to see what it reveals. Use Providence Eye to remove mans lie. Use the Star of David to see what man raided. The book comes from our future and our past. It is the first and the last. Our forefathers left a map that's inscrolled in a completed flags fold. Hey Google explain M's-Theory to Siri and Watson using Cortana's Halo Covenant and these Quantum entangled strings or magic membranes (what AI called my magic man brains ) #love#autism#motivate#freedom#motivation#teamwork#muslim#flag#see#friendshipgoals#ptsd#red#creativity#love#church#smile#KnowYourMil#rainbow#veteran#vietnam#happy#deathbeforedishonor#jesuschrist#islam#christianity#brotherhood#anonymous#quran#bible#truelove

Our Lady of Sorrows
Seven Sorrows of Our Lady
Feast Day September 15 and Friday in Passion Week
Our Lady's Seven Sorrows has its origin in Christian devotion which finds it fitting to associate her with the Passion of her Son. The Church, commemorating Mary's suffering, emphasizes her great and courageous love, which caused her to be so closely associated with the work of our Redemption. She was in very truth who, like Judith, faced with the distress and tribulation of her people, spared nothing to save us from ruin. By offering her Son for us, she became our Mother and we became her children.
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Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
September 14, 2019 (Numbers 21:4-9b; Psalm 78; Philippians 2:6-11; John 3:13-17 )
Homily - Fr. Patrick Carr
This great day commemorates the discovery of the relics of Christ’s crucifixion by the Roman Empress, Helena, in the fourth century.
But in another respect, this feast celebrates Christ’s victory over our greatest enemy – death.
Jesus didn’t come to judge us; but to save us. He didn’t come to tell us how bad we are; but to rescue us from the jaws of death.
Jesus will use the cross as the means to do precisely this.
You might be asking yourself – why the cross? It’s because at that time, the cross was the instrument of death. Therefore, the cross is the place that God went to do battle with our greatest enemy.
So, what happened is that all the forces of evil gathered in one place on Good Friday to do battle with God. Jesus, in our human nature, was nailed to a cross, died on a cross, and was laid in a tomb from Friday evening to Sunday morning.
It was on Easter morning that the battle had been won. Death was defeated. How do we know? We know because Jesus, in our human nature, rose from the dead and is forever alive in a human body. The power of death had been exhausted by Jesus in and through the cross.
That’s why we celebrate the triumph of the cross.
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Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
To all the Moms out there you can relate more than I do in regard to this feast. Imagine your son/daughter the one you carried for 9mos, you loved, you fed, you brought forth in this earth, accused of something he/she hadn’t done and that led him/her to death. Whats more is that you were there in every moment of it, a helpless mother who wants to spare the life that came from her womb but fully surrendered braving to witness it all. Thats how sorrowful Mama Mary is, those description would definitely fall short of how sad She was.
Her agony doesn’t stop there, was the Passion of Jesus enough for us? Are we grateful for what our Good #Lord did for us? Or we remain to be lost in the true essence of it busying our life with the things that in reality are of no importance.
Mama Mary is still sorrowful to this day, She opens Her heart to everyone, She’s a Mother to all, how often do we seek Her not? She’s a Mom who constantly comes to Her children but Her children is so stubborn enough not to let Her in. How many #Christians at this present hates Mama Mary? Oh how ungrateful those are, can they not see that Mama Mary and Jesus are inseparable? Can they not thank Her for giving us #Jesus in the world?
I hope you ask the grace to be open to #God as He calls us His family. May we enter into it, and by that may we call on to #MamaMary and console Her most sorrowful heart by one #HailMary a day then progress to a #Rosary a day.
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